problem. as power come back online, that's the crucial thing. gas will be readily available again. that's something that hopefully calms some people who have been afraid about that. thank you for watching. anderson cooper 360 starts now. >> thanks very much. good evening. a lot happening tonight. a lot to get to. what we've been seeing all day, what we'll be seeing for a long time to come is not the after math to a disaster. ask anyone just down the street from us in the lower part of manhattan where it is still dark or across the water in staten island or down the jersey shore. they'll tell you. sandy is ongoing. the winds of sandy are still blowing in many ways. and almost every moment, there is a new reminder of why. we just got this video of a fire crew out on long island the night that sandy hit, surrounded by water, battered by wind and facing a wall of flames. take a look. >> what about the downed wires? >> watch the wires over your head.

>> here comes the wind. >> the block is pitch black. >> imagine that, fighting fire in the midst of all that water. the fire is out. the homes destroyed. power is out to more than we're obviously intensely 635,000 long island customers. focused on the still unfolding for those 635,000 people, it is crisis that sandy left in its wake. another critical story the still a disaster. presidential election is now still a disaster as well for just five days away. hundreds of thousands in new president obama resumed campaigning today, a day after york's west chester county who governor romney went back on the might not see power for another trail. they both planned to hold nine days. in lower manhattan, they're at virtually nonstop events between what could be billions of dollars in damage. now and tuesday. the race still considered too close to call of cnn's latest andrew cuomo took me for a rare poll shows president obama ahead look at inside. by one point. >> when you saw the water coming 48-47%. out monday night, what went a national poll. through your mind? the poll in the state of >> it was one of the most colorado, the new international frightening things. i mean, it was truly poll shows 15% of likely polls

frightening, to say the least. backing obama. that's within the sampling all you hear is water in every number. direction and it really was in 49-45, also within the margin of every direction. >> reporter: he was there monday night when the water was pouring error. now today, governor romney's in. what we saw down there is staggering today as you'll see camp said he will campaign in pennsylvania on sunday. in a moment. there is a lot of work ahead for a lot of people. they claimed the deep blue key stone state is in play. some progress to report as well. no doubt about that. they said the same thing in a this evening, new jersey memo but didn't cite any governor chris christie lifted particular data. evacuation orders in cape may the obama campaign called it a and atlantic counties on the sign of desperation on their part. joining me now with the raw southern tip of the state. that's progress. politics, chief white house as you'll see growing danger correspondent, jessica yellin, farther up the coast from broken gas lines. it has been that kind of day. and jim acosta and correspondent danger, heart break, victory and john king. >> the storm has been a real setbacks everywhere sandy hit. curveball for candidates. how has mitt romney been handling transitioning back to the sound of progress. regular campaign mode? does he feel that it may have stopped his momentum? limited service once again. >> what we saw earlier from mitt the power went out and the water romney, he went back on offense. came in. aboveground, more buses but after dialing back his criticism still too many riders. of president obama in the >> it is amazing to see the

faces of people get off the subways. immediate aftermath of they're thinking things are superstorm sandy, he went on the going fine and then they see attack. he ridiculed the idea for the this. this is just a mess. >> a mess that many simply choose to walk away from. secretary and he unleashed this tens of thousands walking mile to work over the city's bridges. ad. a spanish language tv ad that all around the area, driving linked president obama to hugo meant waiting to gas up. chavez and the castro family. with tanks running empty and i think the romney campaign at this point, they're not really patience running low. staying one way or the other >> this is the line. i follow the line. whether or not the campaign has been damaged to some sentence by >> it is not just gas running low. what happened with hurricane >> we are over the next few days sandy but i think the, getting going to have to work out some back on offense does reflect the procedures to make sure people fact that they feel like they'd can get food. >> as many as a million new better get this momentum back on yorkers may need help. their side. fema is flying in food, clearly it has been affected. >> and president obama has supplies, and personnel. obviously been in full >> we're all in this together. presidential mode. he took a break from campaigning we are desperately trying to help everybody. but he's been very visible. we're trying to prioritize. he is getting good marks hoist >> across the river in hoboken, handling of the storm, most notably from governor chris new jersey, national guard christie in new jersey. rescues continue. is there any sense how voters up and down the devastated jersey shore, natural gas may be reacting? service being cut with utility >> we don't know how voters are crews scrambling to plug rejust yet. the president is in his own way hundreds of explosive leaks.

on norg city, staten island, all taking advantage of the moment. he bounded off the plane today at his first stop wearing his the worst that sandy brought is leadership credentials on his all coming home. >> total, total devastation. sleeves literally. he was wearing a bomber jack i live a mile from the beach. that read, commander-in-chief. how did that water get to my and he opened his first remarks house? >> and there has not been as by commenting on the storm and much attention on staten island as there should have been. so much heart ache out there. saying, it's one of those times when democrats and republicans the 88 people who lost their lives in the storm, 13 in the come together. he is sort of walking that line city. two were young boirks brothers of not politicizing it but who might have survived. that's what their mom says. making the reference to his role if her story bears out, it wouldn't have taken a miracle in it and his time with governor either. just a neighbor doing the right christie, it would seem. and then he's broadened out his thing. gary tuckman has their story. message. he has a new closing argument. >> reporter: a florida explorer on the side of the street in the staten island, new york. he's dropped the line and the car seats remain where two instead he's about bill clinton and what bill clinton's role was little boys, brandon and connor moore were sitting as their in doing kind of the right by mother glenda was driving duran the economy. and now talking about himself, barack obama, president obama as hurricane sandy desperately looking for shelter. a leader who unites people. the story is sad, horrifying, brings people together. and is now going back to the terrifying. she was driving her suv down message of change from 2008, this street. saying not talking about it plunged into this hole during changing washington, but the height of hurricane sandy. she then got out of the vehicle bringing americans' voices into

washington and talking about wither had 2-year-old son ander had 4-year-old son. himself as a unifier, clearly a remember, it is pouring rain, torrential, the winds, 90 miles mantle he is picking up in the wake of his leadership role in per hour. she comes over here to this tree. and holds on to the tree, the role he's taken after grabbed the branches. superstorm sandy. >> it's amazing. holds on to it and holds on to the twist and turns this race has taken, i guess every her sons at the same time. she did this, according to presidential race does in the police, for hours. final days. a new polling out from colorado, that's what she told police. she then said she went up to still a very tight race there. this house behind me. what does it mean for next knocked on the door. the man was inside and pleaded tuesday? what do the number show? with them, let us inside your >> the numbers in colorado show house. she said the man would not let her in the house with her sons. 50-48 for the president. that's a statistical tie. she then went into the back, this is a state that is going stood on the balance could down right to the very end. notty, took a flower pot to you can tell that when you're break a window to get in. here. the early voting. wasn't able to and ultimately this is one of the places republicans have even a slight floodwaters came through and advantage. that's not the case in any of swept her sons away. the other voting states. everyone was wishing for a if you look at colorado, nevada, miracle on the search for the then to the midwest. you would have to say in the children. but there really wasn't any public polling, the president optimism the boys would be found has a slight advantage. alive. new york city police used a fan they're all close enough for this to play out on election boat to look for them in the day. but you mentioned it, and they nearby marsh. talked about the storm. the police divers walk through that swampy marsh. incumbency cuts both ways and we sadly, the bodies of both may find out tomorrow whether children were found not far from the president's post storm

each other about a quarter mile leadership, the away from where glenda last held commander-in-chief, the use of the bully pulpit has helped him. them. family members say glenda is too when we get the numbers tomorrow distraught to talk to us. we might be reminded that he is we wanted to meet the man who lived in the house where police the incumbent and we have a say glenda sought protection. sluggish economy. nobody answered the door. we could have another twist. while we were standing near the >> does either candidate have the momentum? house on public property, an can anybody say which side has the momentum right now? angry man appeared. >> get the hell out. >> no. it's my house. no cameras here. if you look nationally, it has been consistent for a week. stop. stop. the race is tied. get out. get the hell out. if you go state by state, in one >> did a woman knock on your state you say the president has a bit of a lead. door -- in other states, romney has a >> reporter: allen did not want bit of a lead or a momentum. to say his last name but the in most of these places, the house in question is his and he president had the luxury of no said he was inside during the primary challenge so he has a hurricane. >> the police say that glenda came with her two sons. better ground organization on paper. more offices, more people. knock on your door. they've had more time and money >> no, sir. to spend on this so you would say it is an advantage. absolutely not. >> reporter: you did not see a woman with two children. the final days of a campaign are always surreal. >> absolutely not. i remember michael dukakis i only saw the man. saying he is slipping and sliding, we're rocking and >> reporter: you said you saw a man come to your door. rolling days before he went on >> he didn't come to the door. to lose 40 states. but the democrats did send bill there were stairs. he must have been standing at the bottom of the stairs. clinton into minnesota. >> reporter: what did he do? they wouldn't do that if they >> he took a flower pot. i can show you. weren't nervous. they sent him into pennsylvania. there's one in the backyard. they wouldn't do that if they

there were. two he threw one of them through themselves were not so sure. the door. >> reporter: what they're saying is after you didn't let her in, that's the mystery of this she tried to break a window to campaign. the obama campaign thinks we'll have an electorate that looks get in. is it possible you're mistaken? like 2008 on tuesday but they're >> no. not certain about that. because i had to stay there all none of the campaigns are. night. i sat all night with my back that's why we have so many states that are so close. guess what, we just don't know. against the door. >> john king, jessica yellin. in the kitchen. >> reporter: the man, did you let the man in the house? >> he didn't ask to come in. thanks. we were reporting earlier on the broadcast about the lack of he asked me to come out and help attention staten island has been him. >> what could i do to help getting. we got breaking news. minimum? we just got word that got word i'm wearing the same clothes. this is my brother's jack. i had shorts on with flip flops. >> reporter: are you saying you did not see a woman and two napolitano is going to visit children? >> you saw a man. >> a man. staten island. >> you must feel terrible for the secretary will tour the area this woman and her two children? >> did they find the children? with the fema director. i don't know. >> reporter: they found them. they found them dead today. we're learning more and more about lives that were lost, the >> of course. it's a tragedy. faces and names of the tragedy, of course. absolutely. the lives they led. unfortunate. she shouldn't have been out. we'll remember them and pay tribute to their lives that she shouldn't have been on the road. >> reporter: a lot of people ended suddenly when sandy are. struck. and they look for help sometimes. >> there's nothing i can. do i'm that a rescue work he. the mayor said, rescue worker,

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island president. the situation is grave and it hasn't gotten the attention from media and also the authorities over the last three days. are you finally starting to see -- >> we're seeing some improvement from what took place this morning. >> reporter: you basically, you know, said some tough words about the red cross saying, look, people shouldn't even donate because they're not there to help. and does that seem to have gotten at least the wheels starts with arthritis pain and a choice. moving. take tylenol or take aleve, >> frustration turns into anger. there wasn't much help for the people of staten island. the #1 recommended pain reliever by orthopedic doctors. i didn't see the red cross nowhere. nowhere at all to be found. just two aleve can keep pain away all day. and the events you see this back to the news. morning with this young lady, i saw staten island for the past two and a half, three days. email marketing from constant contact there was no one there to answer reaches people in a place they're checking every day -- questions. >> why is that? the bridges were out? how do you explain it? their inbox. >> i'll not going to justify why or why not. they weren't committed by me. and it gives you the tools to create after today's outburst that we custom emails that drive business. had this morning, there has been a lot of results. it's just one of the ways i had ten buses come over from constant contact can help you grow your small business. the red cross. they're feeding the people.

sign up for your free trial today giving them soup. at constantcontact.com/try. and it has been excellent, sending over food and water and senator schumer came down to have a press conference where we disclosed to him that there was a lack of help coming down to people. that i saw come into the shelter york and new jersey and the day after the storm when w throughout the northeast have no clothes on almost. no shoes on. lost everything, others are we were stocked. still without power or having a the city shelters were well lot of trouble getting around and waiting in long lines for gas. stocked. we ran out and i gave them for some families, the toll that sandy took is much higher. orders to go out. at least 157 people were killed pay for it. buy it and i'll vouch for it. in this storm. there were no answers for these 88 of them here in the united people. some of these people that came states. tonight we remember all of those into shelters. who died. their home had been destroyed we want to take a minute just to the night before. they had no place to go. where do they go when they leave the shelter? get to know a little bit about i need answers. these people need answers. >> it is frustrating that it takes you yelling to start to get some answers. >> you're not supposed to govern some of their lives. as the swirling wind of sandy swept through southwestern by yelling. but frustration went into anger. but it seem to have gotten some results. >> what do you need most right now in staten island? connecticut, russ are sell was doing the job he cherished as a >> i need fema to be. volunteer firefighter. he was returning from a fire and

there i got a call from fema authorities say he stopped his truck along a road in the small town of eaton, connecticut. he and two other firefighters were trying to remove a huge log headquarters that they'll have a in the middle of the road when a squad there tomorrow attached to suspected microburst of wind me. >> so they'll be there tomorrow. sent an enormous tree falling on >> absolutely, he said. and then we'll go toward staten island. people need someone to speak to. how do i get help? top of him. from whom do i get help? how do my children go to school? russ was pinned beneath the tree. he was 55 years old and had spent ten years as a volunteer. they have no clothes, this he connecticut's governor, daniel have no home. these are questions that should be answered by government. to do for people what people can't do for themselves. there are no answers. ma loi, praised russell as a >> we want to touch base with firefighter doing what he loved most. that he would do anything for your mom and if that team anybody. in new jersey, the slashing doesn't show up, will you let us know? >> absolutely. i want to thank you to give us winds caused death. the publicity that we need. thank you very, very much. god bless you. god bless you. this couple was in their pickup truck when a large tree fell >> thank you very much. across their vehicle. let us know what you think. their kids, aging 8 and 14 were follow us on twitter @anderson cooper. i'll be tweeting downtown where in the truck as well but i live and lower manhattan where survived. on the facebook page, the tributes flowed in. i know of no other people so a lot of people live. generous and loving as the there is still no internet service, no electricity.

just ahead, the new york subway. everetts were. the part that got submerged. jason carroll takes us for our and out on the ocean, many of first look at the water's edge. you have heard by now the replica of the sailing ship and and progress report on one of how it reportedly sank in huge winds and waves caused by sandy. the coast guard rescued 14 the big hard tunnels coming into members of it is crew. the ship's captain, however, the city. we'll be right back. [ mother ] you can't leave the table remains missing. one crew member is known dead. her name was clawed dean christian. that's her alongside the replica. 42 years old, she often told reporters she was related to fletcher christian, the sailor blamed for leading the on ship. she won a job as a deckhand just last spring. on her facebook page and on twitter, she was clearly thrilled with her new job. she said, i am in love with my till you finish your vegetables. [ clock ticking ] ship, bounty. russell, richard and bet, [ male announcer ] there's a better way... claudine all lived life to its v8 v-fusion. vegetable nutrition they need, fruit taste they love. could've had a v8. fullest, all died far too soon. or...try kids boxes! >> late word tonight that the coast guard has suspended the search for the captain of that ship. we also want to correct a mistake we made last night while

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breaking news to report. late news the holland tunnel, one of the major arteries into and out of manhattan will reopen tomorrow morning. that's good progress. one of the two tubes opening back up for rush hour tomorrow. still for many, getting around tonight and tomorrow is going to remain a nightmare. take a look at this. these are pictures from outside the barkley center in brooklyn. those are thousands and thousands of people waiting for hours to get on buses into manhattan. this is what it looks like when new yorkers lose the subway system that we all rely on. the subway has been shut down since sunday night. limited subway service started today but very limited. nothing below 34th street where there's no power.

if you're familiar with new york, that's a huge chunk of the story. there is still no power to lower manhattan. entire subway stations are flooded. jason carroll got an upclose look at the mta official, it is not hard to see why the subways are down in that part of the city. watch this. >> what is it exactly that you'll be doing down here? this is an area clearly where you're working now. >> the station complex itself will require, is significant rehabilitation due to the damage from the storm. the infrastructure, the electrical systems, the fare collection systems, the lighting systems, the stairways, the ventilation systems, the elevators, the escalators. they're all pretty much ruined from the water from the surge damage. just follow my same footsteps. believe it or not, these timbers washed in from the bay. >> this tim bir here.

>> absolutely. this washed in from the -- >> from the tidal surge. >> it is incredible to think this was a subway station. >> one of our newest subway stations. >> so were you able to -- obviously you were able to pump out a lot of the water from where we are right now. >> it's dry. it is dry to this level but we'll take a quick look over there at the stairway that goes down to the 109 terminal station and you'll see the level of water where it stands today. >> this pretty much says it all, too. when you see what's left over here. >> this is the finished surface wall with time. you see it washed out from the wall coming down the stairway. >> so that's the level of water. this is completely flooded all the way down to the platform level and to the tracks. where you would typically go down. and get on a train? it would be another level down? >> at one point the water was up where we're standing here.

you can tell where the step are. >> yes, at this very level. it is about -- we've pumped out about 15 feet so far. >> okay. so you've pumped 15 feet you've already pumped. wow. okay. >> and a lot more to go. 25 feet down of water, additional water. >> still lies in place. >> when do you think this particular subway station will be up and totally running again? >> i could not tell you. i really couldn't tell you. i don't have the skills or expertise. >> if you had on guess? >> i would say months. >> months. >> months. >> jason carroll joins me now. that's incredible to see. this is unprecedented in the 108 years of the subway. nobody has planned for this kind of thing. salt water in the subway system. when i asked them about what they'll have to do to get this done, the task ahead of them, he said monumental. that's how he described it. he said basically, it is not just about pumping water. you saw the debris.

they have to get rid of the debris. then what you've got to do is test the equipment. you've got to have power in order to do that. so a monumental task and so corrosive on the instrumentation, they don't even know if it will work. >> you can see the stairs that have already started to rust. and it is hard to tell from those pictures there, when we looked down that stairwell. i said how much further down do you have to go? two more flights. two more flights of water that is sub merminged so it really gives you a sense of the work that lies ahead. >> i'm thinking with all that water still in there, even after a couple days, the at. mold that could develop and mold, getting rid of that stuff takes a long time. so months is very easy to understand. >> it is a conservative estimate. and we were talking about, what if anything could you do to try to prevent something like this? that's what a lot of people are thinking. he said really nothing. unless you're going to build some sort of a seawall to protect manhattan from the water coming in. >> people are starting to talk about that. building some kind of system of gates like now they have in new

orleans. i talked to a climate expert. he said in the next 100 years interesting water will rise two to three more feet. it has risen one foot over the last 100 years. so the next 100 years, they're saying two to three feet. for new york that could be devastating. >> and think about this. when you look at the pictures, you look at the images there, these commuters are watching when am i going to be able to get back to that subway station? 8.5 million people use it every day. it is going to be a while. >> incredible. appreciate it. thank you for getting down. there another major part of the storm's aftermath that's affecting people in new york and new jersey. just look at any gas station. people are waiting for hours to fill up their tanks. the pedestrians waiting in lines with gas can for general raters. the power outages. aaa says ports in new jersey and staten island are closed for transporting fuel and the traffic jams are it hard for trucks to get the gas to stations. in some parts of new jersey, the problem is natural gas. the gas company said it has gotten more than 1,000 reports of leaks in just the past three

days. randi kay went to check it out. >> reporter: for days this part of the coast has been a ticking time bomb. natural gas lines have been spewing gas. we took a boat ride on the bay to see the threat for ourselves. the damage, truly unimaginable. we came out here in search of the natural gas leaks. but you can see, there is plenty of damage here as well. take a look at this house here in the distance. this is in the town. you can see it is completely collapsed there. completely falling apart. practically broken in half. and then if you can just swing over here. look at this one. this house, used to be over there on land. now it is sitting in the middle of the water. people up and down the coast have been anxiously waiting, wondering if their neighborhood might explode. here in barnigut bay, this one

is split in two. you see that blue one. and you can smell in this area as we were getting closer to that home, you can smell the gas in the air. it was getting stronger and stronger as we got closer to it. already the gas company says they have responded to 1,300 gas leaks and they have cleared all of them. but here you can still smell it in the air. resident rob williams checked on his house and snapped this photo of a gas crew working to plug the leaks. look closely. they are digging for gas lines in the sand where a house had been washed away. williams said the gas crews were overwhelmed. the gas company that they didn't even know how bad the problem was, because they could only survey the damage by air. but once they were able to get closer in a boat like we are today, they were able to see just how dangerous it was. they, too, smelled the gas and they, too, realized they had a real problem on their hands. the gas leaks forced the mayor

to shut the town down today. by this afternoon, new jersey natural gas began venting the system. purging the gas lines from the beach to the park as well as long beach island. turning it all off may make it safer for about 28,000 customers. but they are sure to be without natural gas for some time. >> randi joins me from new jersey. so is the gas company successful in shutting down the gas lines today? >> reporter: they were, anderson. that's the good news. they got the whole system shut down. i spoke with the company spokesman tonight and he confirmed that. but as far as the next step now, it is really hard to say. in purging the system of the gas, they had to flood it with water and that could really destroy all the pipes. this was their last resort. they were trying to save the whole system. in doing so now, they probably lost the whole system. in the next few days they'll go in and try to assess the damage. right now, 28,000 customers are

without any gas and they'll likely have to rebuild this whole system, anderson. so not only will it take a whole lot of time but it may cost millions of dollars. >> wow! randi, appreciate. that coming up, we'll survey the damage at the world trade center site, formerly known as ground zero in manhattan where water poured into the construction site of the 9/11 museum. governor cuomo took me for an exclusive look. is there a moment that stands out from this entire experience? >> i think it was this moment. i think it was that night you got a sense of how quickly it could all go so very bad. , all the nurses wanted to watch him when he was there 118 days. everything that you thought was important to you changes in light of having a child that needs you every moment.

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. a new york city nurse saves a newborn baby's life, just 8 hours old. the hospital is evacuated when the generators failed. we get insight into how the rescue mission went.

we have some remarkable video to show you. it is a time lapsed video as the lights went out across the east river. it is amazing to see it like. that some of the power had been turned off downtown as a precaution but as things stood before the storm, there is no way of holding back the sea. highways flooded, cars, subway tunnels flooded as we talked about. some of the most commercially valuable handled on the earth is now waterlogged and so are 62 enacres of hal overed ground. we went below the world trade center site. monday night governor cuomo was here when the water poured in. in pitch black, he and lead engineer steve used flashlights to try to figure out how bad it was. >> when you saw the water coming in monday night, what went through your mind? >> it was one of the most frightening things -- how are you doing, guys? it was truly frightening, to say

the least. it was all dark. all you hear is water in every direction. and it really was in every direction. and again, you didn't know when it was going to stop. and you're in the middle of building this building which has taken so long. and a lot of the site is in a very delicate, precarious area because it is under construction. watch your step. so frightening is the only word. it was disorienting and frightening. the memorial is in place. the museum is being constructed underneath. and the question is, what damage was being done to the museum? the museum did wind up filling up with water. >> now the water on the surface is gone but below ground, there is still a lot to pump out. the water is still being pumped out. how much water is there right now in. >> we think that somewhere

between 150 to 200 million gallons at the bottom of this site. >> how much can you pump out -- >> we've pumped out over the last day, about 20 million. so that's not good enough. >> how concern are you about what lies ahead? the other day you said, we've had now 200 storms in the last two years. i talked to an expert who said the water will be rising two to three feet in the next 100 feet. >> new york is very vulnerable if that's the case. i do believe there's been an increase in extreme weather patterns. i believe to be prudent, we have to bank on additional extreme weather patterns and that could be the learning curve. here the underneath for the memorial site goes down about seven stories. and that is where the retaining wall is. >> underground on the floor of the museum interesting water remains but the retaining wall is still intact. >> so this is the actual

retaining wall for the hudson river. you were afraid this could even break. >> that this was where it was coming from. it was rising so fast. steve was the master of the site. he is a construction genius. it was coming up so fast. it was either because it was coming from the hudson that quickly on the top or it was filling from the bottom. that quickly. and the worst fear would be that the retaining wall had breached and it was filling from the bottom and that's why we came down to check this wall. and it was wet like this but you didn't see any obvious cracks or leaks. >> there was water everywhere here and it was coming in fast. water pouring over here. >> here, there, everywhere you turn. >> and pitch black. little flashlights and the noise was deafening. because you would have water that was falling 20 or 30 feet, cascading. so it was deafening. >> the water is still being

pumped out and manhattan is still without electricity. tonight for the first time since the storm, the lights on one world trade will turn on and construction begins again. >> the work goes on. >> the work goes on. >> people will look up and see the lights. >> the work will start again tonight. they're ready to go back to business. ? when new yorkers look up and see that, what do you want them to know? >> new york is back. new york is resilient. we're tough. we've gone through a lot but we're the better for it. we learn from it. and i believe we don't just rebuild. rerebuild better. that's what this site is all about. that's what new york is all about. >> for the families who lost loved one on this site. >> it has been a long struggle but it's coming. it is going to be something magnificent and something to be proud of and something all -- >> the governor called me up after we talked, after we had already separated to remind me and to remind everyone of the extraordinary work the men and women who are working on that

site are doing and how eager they are to get back to work tonight, to have those lights on so they can start work again on one world trade. we met a lot of the men and women down on the site today. they're incredibly proud of the work they're doing and the work they weren't able to do to pump out so much water. the national guard troops worked so much to evacuate patients from bellevue hospital. we talked about that yesterday. by this morning, just seven were left to move. several major new york hospitals, as you know, have shut down after losing power. the most harrowing evacuate came during the storm. we cannot forget this image. a nurse on a strexer cradling a baby as they're lowed into an ambulance outside the medical center. the hospital of generators had failed. we've slowed down the video. take a look at what the nurse is doing there. manually pumping air into the baby's lungs. the infant patient in the nicu was just eight hours old. so fragile. couldn't breathe on its own. that nurse's name is margo.

she works in the ny nicu. i'm so proud that she jones me now. thank you for all you've done. i hope you know people around the world are amazed by what you and the other nurses and doctors and orderlies did at that hospital. explain what that took to move those little babies down those flights of stairs in the dark. >> well, it took a lot of coordination between manile people because the babies, normally, babies that tiny are not like held unless the mother is holding them. so we had to be sure that the baby was safe and warm. because they lose heat a lot. they all had central lines so somebody had to be holding the line. they were on monitors because we had to know how they were doing. you could not really see them that well. so somebody was holding the monitor and somebody was holding the oxygen tank and we were bagging the baby and the dad was there, too. >> you have people with

flashlights standing on the stairs the stair cases were lined with volunteers and medical students that all had flashlights. >> incredible. >> it was just a wonderful -- >> how many people in each group per baby? >> with the really sick infants, we had about six or seven in a group. >> so you're going down with nine flights of stairs with six or seven people all -- you all have to move together. >> everybody has to move together. >> incredible. >> we had one of our unit clerks in front of us who was like saying, okay, another step, another step. she was helping us. it was actually so great. all the babies got safely. >> everybody survived. >> everybody was safe. everybody actually did really well. >> what is going through your mind in that time? >> next step. hold the baby. make sure the tube -- if it had a breathing tube, i had to make sure that tube did not jiggle. that it didn't come out. if it came outering with would

have to resuscitate right there on the stairs so it was really important. >> you've been a nurse or 26 years? >> 36. >> 36 years. >> yeah. >> i mean, you've saved a lot of lives. have you ever experienced anything like this? >> no. this was the most dramatic. >> the most dramatic. >> yes. >> does the training just kick in? is part of your mine -- are you worried? are you just thinking, okay, next step. going through all the things you have to do. >> i think the worry is there but you have so many jobs to do that it blocks the worry. >> do you think being on tv is harder? >> being on tv is hard he. i have nothing to do except stand here and -- it is just that, this is not my job. so when you do your job, you know how to do it. >> you do your job incredibly well. >> the whole city, i was tweeting about this. monday night, at the height of the storm. i heard about this. we covered katrina so much, and

we covered all the horror stories of the patients there. how the generators failed or why is something to look at in days ahead. but for everybody who worked there, as a resident of the city, i want to say thank you. >> you're welcome. it was the whole team. you have to remember that 19 babies that people took one at a time. >> each had that team. incredible. thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> thank you so much. yeah. makes your heart feel good. another critical story is in its final days from now until tuesday. president obama, mitt romney plan to campaign nonstop in battleground states. today the romney campaign added a new one to the list. is that a siphon confidence or is it a bluff? we'll talk about that. what if there was a new way to deal with money that focused less on fees and more... on what matters? maybe your bank account is taking too much time and maybe it's costing too much money. introducing bluebird by american express and walmart. your alternative to checking and debit.

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